Which anime are you currently watching?

[Warrior]

Gundam 00

whole show and a few others are officially on youtube

[Ikusagami]

Sat down and finally watched the Steins Gate movie. Story-wise I felt like it really wasn't needed (the OVA ending was perfectly fine and I actually prefer that), on the other hand if you want to see Kurisu do adorable things this is the movie for you.

And thank you for bringing it's existence to my attention.
It was superfluous, as they basically just reversed the same conflict onto Christina, but I liked it. Actually the OVA I found to be pretty pointless--I don't remember it very well, but wasn't it pretty much lacking conflict?

Speaking of Steins;Gate, 'Spose, did you ever get to where the series gets good?
in other words, where

Spoiler warning:

Mayuri starts dying. A lot.

[Gare]

And thank you for bringing it's existence to my attention.
It was superfluous, as they basically just reversed the same conflict onto Christina, but I liked it. Actually the OVA I found to be pretty pointless--I don't remember it very well, but wasn't it pretty much lacking conflict?

Speaking of Steins;Gate, 'Spose, did you ever get to where the series gets good?
in other words, where

Spoiler warning:

Mayuri starts dying. A lot.

I liked the OVA because the original series' ending was a bit lacking for me, but the OVA gave a sense of closure to the whole Okabe x Christina thing. It was fanservice with no conflict but it gave closure. The movie just dragged that out.

Although the movie's first act did make me go hnnnng, being a Christina fan and all that.

[Warrior]

Just finished all 50 episodes of Gundam 00, was pretty damn good, now to watch the Ending movie

[Gare]

Watched a couple of episodes of OreImo second season, probably gonna drop this one. I remember the first season being much more fun. Too much shitty drama and incest in this for me.

Kill la Kill, on the other hand, just keeps getting better with each episode. Good to see badass anime is still not dead.

[Warrior]

Watched a couple of episodes of OreImo second season, probably gonna drop this one. I remember the first season being much more fun. Too much shitty drama and incest in this for me.

Hey thats a great combination right there

And im watching Gundam Wing now, On a Gundam roll

[theownerer]

Well, teheownerer (i kind of feel like referring to myself in third person today) is watching Hajime No Ippo Rising, Naruto Shippuden, Hunter x Hunter (2011), One Piece, and Toriko. I just recently got back into naruto + one piece.

[Gare]

Yahari Ore no Seishun etc. etc. It was okay. I was expecting a lot more since it's so highly rated everywhere but at the end of the day it's just the same old high school stuff I've seen a million times before.

Gargantia. Also okay. I actually enjoyed the rather chill first half of the series more, when it was focusing on world-building and the MC fitting in to the new society and such. Didn't care much for the last few episodes. I'll still watch the upcoming second season though.

And these two were supposed to be some of the higher rated recent shows. Kinda disappointing. Get your shit together anime industry, if this is the best you can do.

[Warrior]

Gargantia. Also okay. I actually enjoyed the rather chill first half of the series more, when it was focusing on world-building and the MC fitting in to the new society and such. Didn't care much for the last few episodes. I'll still watch the upcoming second season though.

I Really liked Gargantia and am quite pleased with the news that a sequel is coming out, thanks for the heads up Gare

[Gare]

I just hope it won't be a timeskip with completely new characters.

[Ikusagami]

I thought I read a comment about Urobuchi only writing two episodes or something, but now it isn't there?
I wrote out my stuff anyway, so here it is.

How they designate writing credits for television is a bit complicated. From interviews, Urobuchi gave the impression he was intimately involved with the writing of the entire series; they just credit whoever actually typed out that episode.

Typically the writing is done by a High Council board of writers, and depending on the production, the director or producer often do the biggest share of the plotwork; the "writer" for that episode just follows along. For example, Dai Sato was only credited for like four or five episodes of Ergo Proxy, even though it was his own brainchild, and he said in interview that the show's (perceived) flaws were the result of him having more control than he'd ever been given before, and he went a bit overboard. And if you've ever seen behind the scenes stuff for GitS, Kenji Kamiyama might as well have been credited as the writer for each episode, he's such a control freak.

Likewise with the American show Lost: I saw like 12 people agree on something once just for the executive producer to say, "No. It happens like this," and Mary Randomnamestein gets her name in the credits for taking dictation.

I'll still watch the upcoming second season though.

I don't even remember them leaving an opening for a second season. Either I forgot some integral untied plot thread, or they're just milking it; either way, I'll probably avoid it. One sci-fi of life is more than enough for me. If I read it has a good plot, I'll watch it afterward, but I don't need more braindead beach hijinks that I can find in literally any other anime made these days.

[Aeolus Aeneas]

Beast King GoLion

[Gare]

I thought I read a comment about Urobuchi only writing two episodes or something, but now it isn't there?
I wrote out my stuff anyway, so here it is.

Yep, I removed that bit because I then saw him credited for series composition and original concept and figured he was a bit more involved with the project than "lol 2 eps kbye". So basically what you explained in this post.

[Ikusagami]

And more on that topic:
Somebody cut out all the important scenes from Gargantia and made a 1:30 minute summary.


I'm thinking of adding a point to my score on MAL.

And in other news, I just finished Neon Genesis Gasaraki. Really good show, but it has some serious flaws. I've seen people bitch about it being inspired by Eva, but I fail to see how that's a bad thing. It had conspiracy, mythological overtones, and robots that were more than robots. I'm yet to see a truly original anything, so "lol. Another anime already did that" is a pretty redundant complaint.

My only complaint is that instead of focusing on the characters, it focused on the conflict. It's an original approach, but it also made it drag at times. The episodes focusing on the protagonist or the history of the mecha were much more interesting than the cutting back and forth between newscasters and war-room briefings. The economic warfare toward the end was interesting, but even less exciting than watching one country's robots fight another countries robots in the desert. And then the climax, while a bit surreal, felt tacked on and anti-climactic.

It gets points for originality though; I'd like to see more anime embrace a panoramic view and intelligent themes, though with better balance.

[Gare]

And more on that topic:
Somebody cut out all the important scenes from Gargantia and made a 1:30 minute summary.

It really wasn't *that* bad of a show... Just nothing mind-blowing.

Also, watch the Petit Gargantia shorts if you haven't already. They're fairly entertaining.